Matt Rizzo papers, ca. 1940s-2002.

Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Midwest manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Rizzo, Matt, 1913-1987.

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Blind Chicago writer, philosopher, insurance salesman and one-time inmate of Statesville prison. Matt Rizzo (birthname: Mariano Rizzo) was born in Chicago on September 20, 1913, one of seven children. He dropped out of school in the 4th grade to make money for his family, working at the Nabisco cookie factory and helping his father, a fruit vendor, and later working as a golf caddy at the Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Illinois. In 1935, at age 22, Rizzo was shot and b...

Leopold, Nathan Freudenthal, 1904-1971

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Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. (November 19, 1904 – August 29, 1971) and Richard Albert Loeb (June 11, 1905 – January 28, 1936), often referred to as "Leopold and Loeb", were privileged and wealthy teenage University of Chicago students who murdered 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks in 1924 in a desire to commit the “perfect crime,” and were sentenced to prison for 99 years plus a life term. Leopold was paroled in 1958 and spent the rest of his life in Puerto Rico, dying of heart failure in 197...